On this episode of the podcast, the brother and sister duo of the sit down with Steve Maxwell to talk about all the stuff he carries around with him on the road and on the plane. Steve talks about how he keeps it all organized, what he uses it for, and what he looks for in a carry-on bag to keep it all together. He also talks about some of the tools he uses to keep all of his stuff organized and organized in a bag that fits in the back of his truck and keeps it safe and secure for him and his family when he goes out and about in the middle of no where else! If you're looking for some ideas for what to carry around with you when you travel, listen to this episode and see if you have what it takes to carry all of your stuff with you on the bus, plane, train, and in your car. If not, go to OneBag.co/ThePODCAST and use the promo code PODCAST for $10 off your first purchase! It helps get the pod out there and get a discount on your first bag! Enjoy, and spread the word to your friends and family about the podcast! Timestamps: 1:00 - What's in your bag? 2:30 - How much stuff you carry? 3:15 - What kind of gear should you carry with you? 4:20 - What do you carry around? 5:40 - What are you looking for? 6:00- What's your favorite carry-ons? 7: What is your favorite piece of gear? 8:00 9:15- How much of your bag size? 10:30- What s your biggest piece of equipment? 11:30 12:15 13:20 14:40 15:00 Is your bag a good day? 16:00 What are your favorite item? 17:00 How much do you need? 18:00 Do you need to carry it? 19:00 Can I carry it in a backpack? 21:00 Should you carry it on the most frequently? 22: What do I carry my stuff in my back? ? 22 - What s my favorite piece? 23:00 Are you looking forward to wearing it in the road? 26:30 What s the biggest bag I m going to wear in the next episode?
00:01:06.000And I'm in a different country every couple of weeks.
00:01:08.000A lot of people say, hey, why not the roller bag, Steve?
00:01:11.000If you travel in any kind of third world country, down cobblestones, I actually had a roller bag, but I ditched it my first trip to London.
00:01:20.000I changed trains like four times, going up and down those damn stairs with a clunk, clunk, clunk roller bag.
00:01:59.000A good resource for your listeners that travel full-time, go to OneBag.com.
00:02:05.000He has many recommendations for various bags where you can just basically one carry-on bag and travel anywhere in the world for several weeks at a time.
00:06:06.000Now, Bruce Lee was really into isometrics.
00:06:09.000He was into what they would call dynamic tension, which is essentially the same thing.
00:06:14.000The great Charles Atlas, Charles Bronson.
00:06:17.000Well, Charles Atlas, those comic book ads that they used to have in the back, like becoming, you were a 98-pound weakling and becoming like a big stud.
00:06:24.000That was like what he was advertising.
00:06:29.000The father of modern isometrics was the guy by the name of Alexander Zass, who was a Russian circus performer.
00:06:36.000And he was traveling around doing wrestling and bending steel, breaking chains over his chest.
00:06:41.000He was just a little guy about my size.
00:06:43.000And he was captured by the Germans during World War I and imprisoned.
00:06:47.000And Zass, in order to get a little extra food because he's worried about losing his physique, he offered to train the Comedan's dog for extra food.
00:06:55.000So meanwhile, he's practicing his isometrics on the cell bars.
00:07:00.000Every day and he eventually bent the bars and escaped.
00:07:04.000Went back to the circus, got recaptured.
00:10:35.000You know, it's really interesting when you see those old school strongman type characters, because there's some people that were doing things back in the day, like, one I always bring up is the catch wrestling pioneer, Farmer Burns.
00:10:53.000Pull this up, Jamie, because there's actually photos of this guy.
00:10:57.000This guy had a neck like my waist, and he only weighed about 165 pounds, and he used to drop like a hangman's drop and catch himself by his neck.
00:11:21.000This is rough, tough American martial art.
00:11:25.000Yeah, this is what's now known as catch wrestling or catch as catch can.
00:11:29.000And when you would get someone in a submission hold, they would call it a catch.
00:11:32.000And there were a lot of submission holds that they had back in those days that are still super effective today.
00:11:39.000And if you go back over the old depictions and old images of submission moves from Farmer Burns, there's stuff that's still completely applicable today.
00:11:48.000Oh, some of that stuff is awesome, man.
00:11:49.000I actually had his original mail order course back in the day when I was a householder collecting stuff.
00:11:54.000I actually had his original home training course.
00:12:33.000When I was coming up, in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, there were so many different defenses against the headlock, we just basically just kind of gave up on using it.
00:12:42.000But if you don't practice that stuff, you get some wrestler, catch wrestler, judo guy, some rough guy, gets you in one of those headlocks unexpectedly, wow, he can really hurt you.
00:13:16.000Okay, because they're on their knees or whatever.
00:13:18.000Yeah, and you're right in front of them.
00:13:20.000But the thing is, when someone's head is here, and you get that forearm under the choke, and you clamp down, man, there's not a lot that guy can do.
00:14:42.000And you definitely didn't want to learn Muay Thai or any of those other techniques.
00:14:47.000It's taking time away from your practice here, and this is what you really need to do.
00:14:50.000Well, that's martial arts teachers trying to protect their turf.
00:14:54.000They're worried about losing income if the students are going from this to that to the other thing.
00:15:00.000Well, you see it from even jujitsu instructors, unfortunately, where jujitsu instructors who only train with the gi start saying terrible things about people who train no gi.
00:15:08.000And the reason being is because they have too many techniques that rely upon handles.
00:15:14.000And as soon as they roll with a grappler, and they're going no gi, and they roll with a really good, solid college wrestler, they're going to get smoked.
00:15:23.000Yeah, they just can't deal with someone who's just really good at manipulating bodies that are sweaty and with gable grips and overhooks and underhooks.
00:15:31.000And they're used to those collars and they're used to grabbing sleeves.
00:15:52.000And so if you're smaller and weaker, the Gi definitely gives you a chance to even the odds there a little bit.
00:15:58.000Well, it allows you to control people, and I think one of the things that's really good about the Gi is people that live in cold climates.
00:16:04.000If you ever get in a self-defense situation with someone wearing a jacket, like I had a conversation with a friend of mine, and I said, if you are in some sort of a street fight with a jujitsu black belt, and you have a leather jacket on, you might as well be a dead person.
00:16:18.000Because if that guy just grabs your collar, all he has to do is get inside your collar, grab ahold of the back of that collar, and you're gone.
00:16:24.000He's going to just clamp ahold of the other side, and he's going to choke you to death.
00:16:28.000You have a weapon wrapped around your body.
00:16:30.000It's shocking how easy it actually is, man.
00:16:32.000People always think like in a straight fight, you know, you're going to be using all this fancy stuff, but it's going to be the most basic stuff you learn is a white bout and a blue bout.
00:16:41.000You're going to fall back on that stuff.
00:16:56.000He and this other guy were yelling at each other or something on the highway, and they decided to pull over.
00:17:02.000So they pulled over to the side of the road.
00:17:03.000They got out, and they started duking it out, and he threw a leg kick, and the guy checked it, and the guy shot for a double, and he stuffed it, and they were both looking at each other like, oh, shit.
00:19:43.000You know, there's a real interesting study done on running.
00:19:46.000They found that people that run in the zone, that like do 10Ks, 5K, you know, competitive running, marathons, triathlons and such, actually have shorter life expectancy than people that don't run at all.
00:21:48.000And then we came back, and we were watching this thing about this surfer who just got mangled, and they had him all stitched up, and he was fucked up.
00:23:13.000The way they hit and knock it, kind of unconscious almost, and then...
00:23:18.000Did you ever see the film that they got right off of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco?
00:23:23.000Some tourists were out there, and they were just filming the water, taking pictures of each other, and seeing all these people hanging around by the water's edge, and a great white, fuck this seal up in front of everybody.
00:24:37.000But the orcas, when you see that video, when they flip it up upside down, something about flipping a shark upside down also kind of like knocks it out.
00:26:00.000Yeah, there's a better footage, though, a different angle, which is a little bit further off, where you actually see the shark breach the water with a seal in its mouth.
00:26:08.000It's like, yeah, I'm going to stay on the shore.
00:26:45.000You know, I always tell these kids, you know, don't be listening to these trainers in their 20s to their 30s or even their 40s because they haven't been over to the other side.
00:28:53.000And even before him, his teacher, he didn't learn directly from this guy, his brothers did, was that guy Asa Maeda, that little Japanese guy.
00:29:03.000I had heard he won over 800 no-holds-barred fights.
00:29:06.000I don't know whether that's true or not.
00:29:07.000Well, it's like the Hickson 400-0 number.
00:29:11.000But Maeda, he did a lot of no-hold-barred-type deals.
00:29:16.000And he was one of the guys that really, really developed that guard because he was finding that big American wrestlers and football players were putting him on his back.
00:29:26.000And he became deadly from fighting from his back.
00:29:30.000He kind of specialized in that particular position.
00:29:32.000That's so fascinating because that was a big part of Helio's game, too.
00:29:46.000I lived with him for a month down at his ranch in Terrasopolis, and I used to get daily lessons.
00:29:52.000And his favorite thing was to have you put himself in just a really bad position, like mounted or whatever, and then just basically defy you to do anything to him.
00:30:00.000And it's a great game that you can play well into advanced age, you know?
00:30:04.000You just let the kids work on you a little bit and just play defense.
00:30:37.000I mean, but if you could develop that kind of defense, if you're safe from there, you're safe from everywhere.
00:30:42.000Like, one of the big parts of jiu-jitsu, I'm sure you'll agree, is...
00:30:45.000The ability to be safe in any position and the ability to understand what it takes to be safe in those positions.
00:30:51.000And the best way to do it, like, Eddie Bravo did that when he was training for Hoyler.
00:30:54.000One of the big things that he did was he had people start off in bad positions.
00:30:59.000He would have people start off mounting him, have people start off in side control.
00:31:02.000He never started out just facing a guy, you know, where it's an equal, neutral position.
00:31:07.000Every position, every role started with him on his back.
00:31:10.000Every role started with him in a compromised position.
00:31:13.000It's such a great way to work if you're working with people that don't have the same skill sets as yourself.
00:31:18.000For example, Hickson was in America for years and years and years and he only had white belt, blue belt level guys to work with but this is the way he kept his sword sharp.
00:31:29.000He would put himself in these Bad positions, partially closed triangles, maybe a partially closed uma palata on the back with maybe a partially closed choke or whatever.
00:31:41.000And he was just a genius at getting out of those positions.
00:31:44.000Yeah, and if you can show your training partners what to do, you can actually make it more difficult for yourself.
00:31:50.000If you tell them what they're doing wrong, and I mean, Hickson didn't just develop his own jiu-jitsu skills.
00:31:57.000Obviously, he had a lot of great students as well.
00:34:31.000But anyway, so everybody called Vitor Victor back then.
00:34:38.000And if you look at the early UFCs, I'm pretty sure I even called...
00:34:43.000I remember someone pulled me aside and said you can't call him Victor Gracie at UFC 12. You can't call him Gracie because Horian was suing Carlson.
00:36:04.000It's a fascinating time in the world of martial arts, if you go back and look at that, the early 90s and what happened to Jiu Jitsu in America and how it just sort of exploded and changed the face of martial arts.
00:36:55.000I was a former school teacher, and I had a little retirement account set up, some money set aside after I quit teaching, and money I'd set.
00:37:25.000And it was the first gym of the Eastern Seaboard.
00:37:28.000I would just get all my old wrestler friends, Philadelphia Judo Club, you know, Aikido guys, and just go in there and just work with these guys and practice my jiu-jitsu.
00:37:37.000And then another, you know, a couple months later, I'd go back and spend time again.
00:38:27.000It's something that you can do into a van stage, but you've got to be careful, and you have to be very careful with the preparation of your body and everything.
00:38:35.000What are the keys to a person that's like, you know, entering into their older age?
00:38:40.000What are the keys to maintaining the body's elasticity, your strength and vitality?
00:38:47.000Well, one of the main keys is joint mobility.
00:38:50.000Every single day you got to do some type of mobility.
00:38:53.000People get confused between flexibility and mobility.
00:38:56.000Mobility has a connotation of strength.
00:38:58.000You want to be able to voluntarily go in and out of the movement.
00:39:03.000Being a grappler and a striker, I've seen your devastating kick, that spinning roundhouse thing you do.
00:39:10.000One way that, like, the difference between mobility, like, flexibility would be you maybe doing a split or putting your foot up on an elevated surface and just holding it and stretching, right?
00:39:47.000And this whole concept that you can't tap to a lower belt, that gets so many guys hurt.
00:39:52.000I can't tell you how many purple belts or brown belts get really PO'd because some really big, strong, or technical blue belt gets them in a bad situation and they feel they can't tap and they'll literally risk injury.
00:40:37.000You can't think about those potential steps.
00:40:38.000And I see in a lot of jujitsu situations, I see...
00:40:43.000When a higher belt will go with a very enthusiastic and a very ambitious lower belt, they oftentimes disregard the possibility of getting tapped, and that's how they get tapped.
00:40:55.000Whereas some higher belts I've seen, they'll roll with a purple belt or a blue belt or a white belt, and they'll roll with everybody like that person's a ninja.
00:41:04.000Every single person like that person is like the greatest grappler that they've ever faced in their life.
00:41:09.000And if they do that, I'm not talking about going hard and being really physical and hurting them, but being aware of all the possibilities and being on your toes and being at 10 at all times.
00:41:20.000If you do that, you're going to be fine.
00:41:22.000Or purposely just put yourself in dangerous positions and get caught, just to practice.
00:41:28.000I think it was Horian's boys, either Henner or Hero and one of those guys, They mentioned a guy that worked in their school, a black belt in his 50s, who was really down in the dumps over having been roughed up by a blue belt.
00:41:46.000And they were saying, well, how old was the blue belt?
00:41:49.000And the guy was like in his 20s and he outweighed him by about 30 pounds.
00:41:53.000And I think they were the ones that came up with the idea that like for every 10 years of age and for every 10 pounds of weight, that's like the guy having an extra belt on you.
00:42:05.000I mean, let's just say a big, strong, athletic white belt that's 20 years old and maybe outweighs me by 40 pounds, that's going to be like me fighting a guy at a much higher skill level.
00:42:18.000What he lacks in skill and technique, he's making up for with hustle and youth, and he's not going to get tired, and strength.
00:42:26.000Well, I also think it's very dangerous to roll with people that are much larger than you.
00:42:31.000I mean, I think there's lessons to be learned in it, and I certainly did my share of it.
00:42:35.000But man, there's a lot of times rolling with much larger guys, we come off and your neck is just fucked up, or your back is cracked, making weird noises.
00:42:44.000It's like, Jesus, is this really worth it?
00:42:46.000Unless the guy's really, really technical.
00:42:58.000But, you know, the smart big guy, if he's rolling with a smaller guy or, you know, an older guy, he's going to put himself on the bottom again and let you sweep me or whatever and just practice his defense in the bottom.
00:43:09.000Well, I would way rather roll with a larger-than-me black belt than I would a larger-than-me purple belt.
00:45:50.000What Eddie's done is he's figured out a way to, they have, it's submission only, so they go after it, right?
00:45:55.000But when it reaches a time limit, if it reaches a time limit and there's no submission, then what they do is they start off in compromised positions, sort of like wrestling.
00:46:03.000You know, in wrestling, one guy would start down, one guy would start off.
00:46:06.000So you have the option of two positions.
00:46:09.000Either you take the back with over-under, just over-under, not a choke locked in, but just the back with the hooks in and over-under, or spider web control, meaning arm bar.
00:46:19.000The guy's defending the arm bar, lying on his back.
00:46:22.000You're in side control, and you have the arm hooked, and your legs are across, and you start from there.
00:46:41.000And if someone taps, then the other person has an opportunity to tap that other person.
00:46:46.000And whoever taps the quickest, like if one person taps the person within a minute and a half, the other person does it in 30 seconds, the 32nd person would win.
00:46:54.000And if there's no taps in the, I think it's three rounds, three rounds of these submission attempts, then they count up the amount of time it took the person to escape.
00:47:04.000So if one person escapes like 30 seconds quicker, you know, then the other person, that person would win.
00:47:10.000That's how Gary Tonin wound up losing yesterday.
00:47:14.000Yeah, it's a smart way to do it, too, because it ensures that you're going to have exciting situations.
00:47:18.000Because if two guys are just locked up in front of each other and no one ever gets to a bad spot, you're not going to see any action.
00:47:24.000But if a guy's on a guy's back and he has an over-under and they start from there, that's a dangerous spot.
00:47:30.000And so you're going to see exciting stuff.
00:47:32.000So it changes grappling from being this...
00:47:36.000Thing that can really wind up, like Polaris, you know, they had those matches with Gary Tonin versus Husamar, Paul Hares, great matchup, but it went to a draw.
00:47:45.000You know, AJ, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, Jake Shields.
00:48:22.000That is a problem and I think Eddie's come up with a perfect solution with this format of putting guys in bad positions in the last stage of the match.
00:48:31.000Sounds like a fun thing to compete in.
00:49:03.000Eddie's done six of them, and they've gotten better and better, and yesterday's was the biggest one, especially because it's on Fight Pass now.
00:49:11.000You know, he's figured out how to make this an exciting thing to watch for people who are on the outside looking in.
00:49:17.000Well, you know, speaking of that cast wrestling, a lot of people don't realize that pre-Civil War and just post-Civil War, wrestling was the most popular sport in America.
00:50:10.000Guys like Georges Hackenschmidt and Frank Gotch and Farmer Burns and even up to the era of Strangler Lewis, they were still doing real wrestling.
00:50:24.000And then, of course, they started getting into more of the entertainment business.
00:51:04.000I mean, think about all the things that are on television, golf or whatever, where there's this massive professional venue for it.
00:51:11.000It sounds like Eddie Bravo, though, has given one.
00:51:13.000For jiu-jitsu, but jiu-jitsu is obviously very different than wrestling.
00:51:17.000I mean, just wrestling itself, getting the pin and scoring points for takedowns and all those different things.
00:51:22.000I mean, there's something to be said for that as a sport.
00:51:24.000Maybe it's not the best as a martial arts for completing a fight, for finishing a fight, wrestling with the rules that are involved in amateur wrestling.
00:51:35.000The guys who get really great at wrestling, I would like to see them have a professional avenue, like a way to go from college and then compete as a professional wrestler.
00:51:46.000Not that there's anything wrong with WWE if you're into that shit, but...
00:51:50.000I would love it if it was an actual competition.
00:51:53.000Yeah, actual, real, honestly, God, not choreographed, nothing from.
00:51:58.000There was an attempt for a while to actually come up with a professional wrestling leg.
00:52:03.000Yeah, but it kind of fell by the wayside.
00:52:06.000Could you imagine if that was the case with basketball?
00:52:07.000If you played basketball in college, and basketball was just like, really, like, people watched on ESPN, it was this big deal, it was in the Olympics in basketball, but then when you went to pro, everybody had to dress like a vampire, and you threw glitter onto the thing.
00:53:51.000But at the same time, you know, these are ferocious warriors.
00:53:55.000You don't want your guys hurting each other.
00:53:58.000So they came up with this idea of coating themselves with oil to make themselves slippery so you can go after each other, you know, like a rabid dog, but no one really gets hurt.
00:56:42.000Super common, you know, that they have gay relationships.
00:56:47.000Like, there was an article that was written about one of those gay websites, like an app, like a Grindr or something like that, and this guy went over to some forbidden country, you know, some Islamic country, and fired up the app, and it was just getting pinged left and right by all these gay dudes trying to hook up.
01:02:10.000There's a new helmet now that supposedly is gel-like that it takes the blow, but, you know, it saves the...
01:02:20.000Yeah, we're seeing in here, Jamie pulled up this video, it says 0-1, believes it can reduce the chances of a player sustaining a concussion.
01:02:27.000And this is interesting, because the helmet itself sort of gives and expands.
01:02:34.000I would love to see that happen, because I love pro football, and I would be thrilled to see that they come out of a way that these guys can still play the game without suffering those horrible injuries.
01:02:49.000I agree, but honestly, I feel like the real option is probably no pads, no helmet.
01:02:55.000The same thing with MMA. Or like the original football in the U.S. Well, I think with MMA, one of the things that saves fighters versus boxing is that you really can't tee off on someone the way you can with boxing gloves.
01:03:09.000With boxing gloves, you almost can have no concern whether or not you're going to hit a forehead or going to hit an elbow, unless you have small hands or weak hands.
01:03:17.000It's much more rare that boxers break their hands than MMA fighters.
01:03:22.000But even MMA fighters, I think, they have an unrealistic amount of protection on their hands, and it's just to protect their hands.
01:03:31.000I got interviewed after the guy died overseas really recently, and they were saying, do you think that maybe we should have bigger gloves, or maybe we should make people wear headgear?
01:03:47.000Because I think that one of the more difficult aspects about punching someone is that your wrist joint moves when you hit things, and it makes it way harder.
01:03:56.000I mean, you have to really concentrate to keep your fist completely tight, make sure that your wrist doesn't move when you make impact, and you have to make impact with the first two knuckles primarily, otherwise you could break your hand.
01:04:07.000Well, like the original UFC. I was one of the original investors.
01:05:34.000You might, but I think you would also see a lot better Muay Thai.
01:05:38.000You would see people would have to develop their Muay Thai because you wouldn't see any change in the weapons.
01:05:43.000The knees, the kicks, the elbows, all would be exactly the same.
01:05:48.000The only difference would be the punches.
01:05:49.000So I think a really high-level Muay Thai practitioner would probably have a really good advantage if they can keep the fight on the feet.
01:05:56.000If the fight went to the ground, you'd definitely see a big advantage for grapplers, especially in securing chokes because you've tried, I'm sure, to grapple with MMA gloves.
01:06:04.000My God, it's just like wearing oven mitts or something.
01:07:50.000Tank was, I'm pretty sure Tank was the pioneer of wearing those kind of gloves.
01:07:54.000And I think that they would call those, I don't think they called them MMA gloves back then because I don't think they had the term MMA. But the original gloves were Century gloves, you know, Century Martial Arts Supply Company.
01:08:11.000The design of MMA gloves didn't come from someone sitting down and saying, we need the perfect glove for mixed martial arts.
01:08:17.000No, they already had a model that was not really necessarily designed for MMA and they just sort of applied it to MMA and it became the standard.
01:08:25.000There's a lot of really sloppy shit that's in MMA still to this day that shouldn't be there, that's only in there because it was in there in the beginning.
01:08:34.000The 12 to 6 elbow, which I harp upon all the time, because I think it's so stupid that if you go down from 12 on the clock to 6 on the clock with an elbow, it's illegal.
01:08:44.000Even if you hit someone on the thigh, which is so stupid, it's illegal.
01:08:49.000And the reason why it's illegal is because the commissions, the athletic commission, saw people breaking bricks on those karate demonstrations.
01:09:03.000Well, and also the reason why gloves are mandatory is because somehow or another they erroneously believe those gloves protect the fighters.
01:09:14.000I mean, I think if we got a room full of athletes and fighters and martial artists, and we all had the discussion, we said, let's just have a show of hands.
01:09:22.000How many guys here think that the gloves protect the opponent?
01:09:33.000I mean, there might be a contrarian or two that would step in and say, you know, hey, personally, I'd rather get punched by a guy with a glove than no glove.
01:10:05.000You know, you'd get hit with a jab, and you wouldn't even recognize the kick was coming, because they're coming over your shoulder until, whop, it's catching the side of the head.
01:10:14.000Your peripheral would get all fucked up.
01:10:15.000It would close your peripheral quite a bit, and I just always felt like I got hit way more when I had headgear on.
01:12:55.000Because when I look at the martial artists from 1993 that were competing in the UFC, and then I look at the martial artists of today in 2016, look at Jon Jones.
01:13:03.000Do you know what the fuck Jon Jones would do to UFC 1?
01:13:05.000I mean, you know how ridiculous it'd be if you send Jon Jones into UFC 1?
01:13:09.000He'd be like, get that guy out of here.
01:13:11.000Like, he's doing a totally different thing.
01:13:13.000I think the martial artists of today, like Demetrius Johnson, who I think is the best ever, But we're still talking modern, modern, modern.
01:15:38.000I'm sure the pain threshold was unbelievable.
01:15:40.000But I think there's also this longing for nostalgia that a lot of people like to apply to the ancient martial artists and the ancient fighters, and they like to look at all those guys.
01:15:48.000Boy, if they could fight today, if you could get this guy.
01:15:52.000Look, Jack Dempsey, who's a hell of a fighter and an amazing boxer and just an unbelievably tough man, wouldn't last one round with Mike Tyson.
01:16:01.000Mike Tyson in his prime would have ran through Jack Dempsey.
01:16:04.000He would have ran through all of them.
01:16:06.000He would have ran through Gene Tunney.
01:16:08.000He would have ran through all those guys.
01:16:10.000Of course, he ran through everybody in the modern age, too.
01:16:28.000What he had is his version of the internet, which was Customato.
01:16:31.000And Customato, I mean, might not have got him on Reddit or, you know, showed him all the funny memes on Instagram, but what he did do is he played him these films, these black and white films of Sugar Ray Robinson, of Jersey Joe Walcott, of Rocky Marciano.
01:16:46.000He got to watch these old school Jack Dempsey tapes and he got to emulate their techniques and understand.
01:16:51.000And Customato would go over meticulously different positions and Different ways to encounter different styles and different ways to move to get better angles for counter shots.
01:17:01.000And he learned from all those techniques.
01:17:04.000In a way, those guys really didn't have the opportunity to do.
01:17:33.000Even to this day, he looks like he could still, you know, if he just trained for, you know, six months or so, he looks like he'd still step in there and take somebody out.
01:17:42.000Well, he definitely looks like he's still somewhat active.
01:17:45.000There was a video of him hitting the bag recently for some shoot for something that he did.
01:17:49.000And, you know, he starts off slow, starts getting loosened up, and then he starts teeing off in the bag, and you're like, oh, Jesus.
01:18:00.000I'm still haunted by that spinning back kick you did in your garage that time.
01:18:05.000Your freaking banana bag bent in half, man.
01:18:07.000My ribs just hurt just watching that, man.
01:18:10.000Well, kicks are always going to be more powerful than punches.
01:18:14.000I think that kicking technique is one of the few things that is a little bit behind in MMA in comparison to some of the traditional martial arts.
01:18:24.000Especially like the spinning kicks and straight kicks.
01:18:31.000If you look at the round kicks of the best Muay Thai fighters and the round kicks of the best Jiu Jitsu guys like Edson Barbosa, I think Barbosa is right up there with pretty much anybody as far as kicking technique in the world.
01:18:43.000But spinning techniques, straight techniques like turning sidekicks, there's a little bit of lost knowledge in those.
01:19:35.000Because he knew that I came from a Taekwondo background.
01:19:38.000He's like, do you know anybody who's a really good Taekwondo guy that can show GSP the fundamentals of the spinning back kick or the turning side kick?
01:20:08.000Well, it sounds, even to me, ridiculous.
01:20:12.000To me, to say to John Donaher, who's one of the best jiu-jitsu teachers in the world, you know, hey, there's a guy that I know, his name's me.
01:21:02.000Well, I certainly would have competed, you know, in MMA like I did in kickboxing and Taekwondo, but I totally honestly though, I've always been terrified of brain damage.
01:21:13.000I knew too many people when I was young that I knew were punchy.
01:21:19.000It still to this day scares the shit out of me.
01:21:20.000That's one of the reasons why I tell anybody if they're even thinking even they even have one foot out the back door and If they're thinking about getting out, get out.
01:22:00.000I've seen it in my time in the UFC. I saw it in my kickboxing days.
01:22:06.000When I went from Taekwondo to kickboxing, I spent a lot of time in boxing gyms.
01:22:13.000I got to watch a lot of guys get beat up in training, and over the course of just a few years, like three or four years, I could see deterioration.
01:22:21.000And see, that's why jujitsu and submission wrestling is so much fun.
01:22:40.000You know, I mean, provided your guy lets go, you always have to have trust with your partners.
01:22:45.000But that is one thing you can do well into a van stage.
01:22:49.000And it is a great anti-aging tool if you go at it in the right way.
01:22:55.000Yeah, and I think one of the things that you brought up earlier when it comes to joint mobility and just flexibility and mobility, I think it's very important that people realize that if you want your body to be healthy, you have to use it all the time.
01:24:35.000Well, you still do those shield casts with clubs.
01:24:40.000Not so much because I can't travel with that stuff.
01:24:43.000So I pretty much went to body weight and isometrics and so forth, you know, a lot of mobility stuff.
01:24:48.000But here's a good resource for your listeners.
01:24:53.000Any of you guys out there listening that have shoulder issues, go and buy the book Shoulder Pain, Its Solution and Its Prevention by Dr. John M. Kirsch.
01:28:06.000I know it sounds counterintuitive, like it's too simple to be true, but it's one of those things that is true.
01:28:11.000Well, I had some tears in my shoulder, and I was having some pain, so I finally went and got an MRI. Apparently it had been dislocated, and I never even knew it had been dislocated, you know, from Jiu-Jitsu.
01:28:22.000I don't even want to see the damn pictures.
01:28:23.000And I had a labral tear, I had a torn biceps tendon, and I had a, what is it, a Label and rotator cuff.
01:28:38.000I got a bunch of shit going on in there.
01:28:40.000Well, anyone that's played hard boy sports like we have all our lives, you're going to get that shit.
01:28:46.000But I'm telling you, what Kersh found, it didn't matter what the source of the injury was, the relief is profound when you do that daily hanging.
01:31:46.000I think there was a bunch, there was a couple guys the Machado's had given, but I was like that first tier of actual Gracie jiu-jitsu guys.
01:31:55.000And then Horian and Master Elio had the Gracie instructor training program.
01:32:00.000They were concerned that, you know, of the teaching quality.
01:32:03.000There was a lot of guys out there teaching that probably shouldn't have been teaching.
01:32:06.000So they wanted, they had a specific educational style, like how to teach the moves, and I was the first person to graduate from that instructor training program.
01:33:47.000I mean, there's no way that that guy was a white belt.
01:33:49.000You know, I've done that at different places where people don't have a good instructor, where they are under-promoted, and I get on the mat with them, I see what they can do, and I say, wow, okay, this guy is under-promoted.
01:34:02.000He just hasn't had a chance to have a legitimate guy give him a promotion.
01:34:16.000Well, if you just really pay attention to the fundamentals and you really understand the principles behind each individual technique, you can learn a lot online today.
01:34:36.000I mean, I heard a really funny analogy one time from, I think, one of Carly Gracie's black belts, or maybe it was a health guy, but he said basically a white belt is a sperm.
01:35:07.000You know, you got the technique, but you just, you know...
01:35:11.000They're starting to know that they can do it, too.
01:35:13.000Purple belts, I feel like, are some of the most dangerous.
01:35:15.000That's a dangerous guy because a lot of times he's still using a lot of power, but he got the technique too.
01:35:20.000And then, of course, by the time you're a brown belt, you're like a young man.
01:35:25.000Basically, a brown belt is a black belt in disguise.
01:35:28.000Once you make brown belt, you're going to make black belt unless you just outright quit.
01:35:32.000And then a black belt is like a grown man.
01:35:37.000But for me, I don't know about you, but once I got the black belt, I felt like a whole new layer of learning was taking place at that point.
01:35:46.000Well, you'd never stop learning in jiu-jitsu as long as your body still works.
01:35:50.000Like we're talking about these new moves that are constantly coming out.
01:35:53.000But then, you know, John Jock Machado has this really interesting take on things.
01:35:58.000He said, the more you know, the less you use.
01:36:23.000You know, when I used to train with Salo, he could tap me out on the cross side without even putting a submission hold, just crushing me with his weight.
01:36:31.000And he's not, I mean, he's heavy, but he's not that heavy.
01:36:46.000But, yeah, I think for as far as moves and so forth, Probably one of the most outstanding clinics I've ever witnessed was when Jean-Jacques Machado was in the second Abu Dhabi.
01:37:00.000I actually went over to the Arab Emirates, and I wanted to support Salo and Hoyler at that time.
01:37:06.000And I couldn't believe the clinic he put on.
01:38:11.000I mean, you know, and that's, it sounds derogatory almost, like someone, like Minotauro once got upset that Vinnie Magalese, Vinnie Magalese was talking about his jiu-jitsu and he said it's very basic.
01:38:48.000He used that one takedown, that one throw he does, he mounted every single, and these were all professional level best black belts in the world, he tapped every single guy with the basic x-choke from the mat.
01:39:38.000But you'll see people with every type of physique type do well in jiu-jitsu because, you know, speaking like fireplug kind of build, I mean, no one was shorter and stubbier than Solo.
01:40:02.000It doesn't matter how you're built, big, tall, short, whether you carry a little extra weight or you're really skinny, you can adapt the jiu-jitsu to your own body.
01:40:11.000So we were talking about you moving to Maui.
01:41:39.000Basically, your reality is based on your thoughts, and your current reality is based on the sum total of all your positive and negative thoughts.
01:41:47.000Thoughts are a vibrational pattern, and the vibe you put out is the vibe you attract.
01:41:51.000So if you're like a real negative person, always saying negative statements and feeling a lot of negative emotional things, you're probably going to have a pretty shitty life.
01:42:01.000And if you're thinking like a higher thought, of course the highest would be love.
01:43:33.000He has some kind of computer program with all his charts and numbers, and he plugs all this stuff in.
01:43:37.000And then I ask him, like, well, what is it you're actually looking at at the computer?
01:43:41.000And it says – it's just basically – he says, I can't make exact predictions.
01:43:46.000He said, if I could make exact predictions, I'd play the stock market and – but I can come up with high probability for certain things happening.
01:44:26.000The problem is, if you give in to that fear mentality, you actually create the very thing you're afraid of, because you're basically concentrating on that.
01:44:33.000It's like a form of visualization, right?
01:44:35.000It was like the shark thing we were talking about.
01:44:39.000I probably would create a situation where I'd meet a shark if I went swimming in the ocean because, you know, I put too much energy into that.
01:46:50.000That's a good book for people to start.
01:46:52.000That U.S. Anderson was quite an interesting guy.
01:46:56.000The power of positive thinking for sure is real.
01:46:58.000I mean, for sure there's a lot of good that can be done in your life if you look at things, if you have a positive approach.
01:47:05.000You could look at things in a good way and have those things have positive attributes, have benefit in those things.
01:47:13.000Or you could look at the exact same thing, the exact same moment in your life and just decide that this is the end, life is terrible, you're a loser, and people have these Deeply grooved patterns that they've carved out in their consciousness over years and years of approaching different situations with very similar reactions.
01:47:33.000And it's almost like automatically, like something happens to you, everything always goes wrong for me.
01:48:01.000Right, the guy that no matter how good he had it, he always would manage to screw it up somehow and things would always turn bad.
01:48:08.000But we've all had the experience, right, of being in a room and someone would come into the room, kind of a dark vibe, and the whole room vibe would go down.
01:48:18.000But then we've also had the experience where a guy would come in who was a real bright, positive-thinking person, and everyone's mood would just slip.
01:48:26.000That's that collective consciousness you've got to be so aware of.
01:48:29.000Because not every thought that a person has is their own.
01:48:33.000We don't manufacture all our own thoughts.
01:48:36.000You can be influenced by negative thinking from other people.
01:48:39.000Positive thinking from other people and you got to start to be very conscious of the kind of thoughts passing through your brain and Reject those those negative thoughts and it's not easy.
01:48:49.000It's like a discipline like working out It really is and it's also one of the more important aspects about surrounding yourself with positive people When you surround yourself with positive people, you find them to be inspirational, you get excited, you all think along similar lines, you support each other and help each other, and it benefits everybody.
01:49:05.000And you develop a real keen sense of love and community.
01:49:10.000Whereas if you're around people that are constantly negative, you're in conflict all the time.
01:49:47.000You know, people that are overweight, man, I'll tell you, you could be in the best diet in the world and still having a lot of struggle with weight if you're missing your sleep.
01:49:56.000I've seen that many, many times, even with my own clients, because I do a lot of fat loss programs.
01:50:02.000And, you know, guys will be eating pretty decent and not losing the weight.
01:50:06.000And then, you know, I'm looking, they're only getting like five and a half, six hours a night, and they're really stressed.
01:50:10.000You know, you have a tendency to really hold on to water and And your body will hold on to that body fat.
01:51:15.000How does one create their own astrology?
01:51:17.000I could almost, and I say almost, almost understand how someone could imagine that if you looked at thousands of years of data, you could figure out that people develop certain personality traits if they're born during certain times,
01:51:35.000and you could sort of try to align those times with the constellations in the sky that are moving, and the You know, just the way the earth wobbles and where the stars are at any given moment.
01:51:48.000That kind of almost makes sense, but this guy doing it on his own.
01:52:16.000You know, like my relationship with my parents and the relationship with my ex-wife and the way my marriage went and the way my marriage dissolved.
01:52:24.000And like, you know, all sorts of stuff like that.
01:52:27.000Like sort of like a tarot card reader.
01:55:57.000You're not testing subatomic particles when you're testing hair.
01:56:02.000When you test someone's hair, and you're testing hair for various mineral deficiencies and vitamins, those things aren't flying through the air and going back and forth.
01:57:54.000I got knee surgery and I didn't take a damn thing.
01:57:58.000I've just read so many negative side effects of the ibuprofen and the Well, ibuprofen is probably the safest of all of them, and it's still not good for you.
01:58:08.000But my fear was always, I just knew too many people that got addicted to pain pills.
01:58:12.000And I'm like, well, what's the worst part about pain?
01:59:16.000Well, pain is an interesting thing in that I think the mind can regulate pain.
01:59:20.000Well, that's what I meant by the pharmaceuticals.
01:59:24.000But it doesn't make sense with other applications, like anti-epileptic medications or things along those lines, where you just know for a fact there's a physical effect on the body that these drugs have.
01:59:46.000Well, especially depending upon who is receiving that effect and how much the person believes that this thing is going to heal them.
01:59:53.000And if people, you know, what I find, a lot of people are really into the body, but they're not really working with their mind or their thoughts or anything like that.
02:00:02.000You know, it takes a lot of discipline.
02:00:04.000It does, but it also, you really have to clearly establish what's woo-woo, what's nutty, crazy, crystal bullshit, and what is...
02:00:15.000What can you really do as far as meditation, as far as things that are repeatable, things that people have shown to have a beneficial effect on your consciousness, a beneficial effect on the way you approach life?
02:00:53.000You know, I feel like confident and really good about the type of information I'm getting.
02:01:00.000And I found it work, but like you say, power of the mind.
02:01:04.000Well, if you just approach it on that level, if you say, okay, this guy's going to give me advice, and I'm going to find this advice to be beneficial, and I'm going to follow through with it, and I'm going to use that as a guideline, and I'm going to have good confidence in that these choices are going to be correct because of this guy and his knowledge.
02:01:20.000My problem is I've seen too much bullshit.
02:01:23.000And so whatever beliefs I might have had even six years ago before I started this podcast, a lot of them have eroded just under scrutiny.
02:02:16.000Well, that is a very good point, and I have thought about that, you know?
02:02:19.000Yeah, well there's not a fucking person in the world that can tell you that if you pick up your car keys and drive your car to Minnesota, something's gonna go wrong.
02:02:27.000So if this guy's telling you that, I call bullshit.
02:02:30.000Not only do I call bullshit, but I think that that kind of stuff is kind of dangerous.
02:02:36.000What he's looking at is like, you know, we're really influenced by the collective a lot, you know, like people's general moods and so forth.
02:03:35.000I think you're a beautiful, brilliant man.
02:03:37.000But if I was your friend, and I am your friend, but if I was there while this was going down, I would be asking this guy a fuckload of questions.
02:03:45.000I do find he's a really good guy to talk to about stuff, too.
02:03:49.000He's almost like a psychologist or a psychiatrist in a way.
02:03:54.000In ancient times, the scientists were philosophers.
02:03:57.000And all the great – even Alexander the Great and all the great Roman emperors, they would have their own private philosophers to advise them on things.
02:05:16.000There's definitely some brilliant guys out there that know stuff that we know.
02:05:19.000But this one guy that's got a computer that can tap into the collective energy of the universe and tell you where the energy is and what...
02:06:30.000And if it's not bullshit, then it's science.
02:06:34.000So if it's science, it's repeatable, and you should bring it to people that are experts, and they should analyze it and study it.
02:06:39.000But for this guy to just sit there and click on some things and tell you don't go to Ohio, That's bullshit.
02:06:44.000Well, all I can say is it's worked for me so far.
02:06:48.000The proof is in the pudding, as far as I'm concerned.
02:06:50.000Okay, if your mind decides that something will work out well, and you have full confidence, and your plane doesn't get hit by a meteor, and everybody gets out alive, and at the end of the seminar, or the end of the trip that you took, you say, hey, that guy's advice really turned out well.
02:07:20.000It is in the sense that it was effective because you had confidence in it and because you approached all these events like you had confidence in it.
02:07:28.000But is it real in that there's a guy who actually can look at a computer and tell you whether or not you should go somewhere based on the energy of the universe?
02:07:43.000Because there are millions of brilliant people out there, millions of scientists, and you talk about quantum physicists and theorists and all these different people.
02:10:01.000Well, it's just, if there's a method to it, like if this guy says, oh, here's the reason why.
02:10:06.000The reason why is, you know, there's like the golden sequence of the universe, and you can tap that golden sequence into a computer, and it's based upon all these different factors.
02:10:18.000If that guy has information like that, and he's just holding on to it in Maui, or wherever the fuck he is.
02:11:09.000And, you know, once again, you know, a lot of this is placebo, you know?
02:11:13.000There is some that's placebo effect, but there's also some that's been proven by science to have beneficial effects on a lot of different factors.
02:11:20.000But, you know, you're a guy who's a healthy, active guy who's constantly eating correctly and you don't allow yourself...
02:11:27.000I'm extremely strict with the diet, you know?
02:11:30.000When you're in these different places, and say if you travel into countries and you might not even speak the language, how do you make sure that you get the right food?
02:11:38.000Well, I try to always keep the quality as best I can.
02:11:42.000But as you know, being a frequent traveler yourself, you can't always get the best quality stuff.
02:11:48.000Talking about placebo effect, I won't let it get me bummed out.
02:11:55.000Let's say, for example, I have to eat...
02:11:59.000Oh, I don't know, a bag of pretzels or something.
02:12:02.000I believe I can sublimate any ill effect of that food, you know, just by being grateful, just by visualizing my body being able to respond well to the food.
02:13:14.000And he said, Steve, you're getting yourself all worked up.
02:13:16.000He said, I can supplement the bad effects of the smoke by not letting it get to me.
02:13:21.000He says, all those negative emotions and the anger and upset you're feeling are ten times worse than any amount of cigarette smoke blowing on you.
02:13:29.000He says, you're actually doing harm by the way you're thinking about it as opposed to the actual harm the smoke's doing.
02:16:15.000I had a little key that's actually a knife.
02:16:18.000It opened up into a little knife because you didn't need a blade, you know, to, you know, you always could use a blade no matter where you are to cut stuff or whatever.
02:19:11.000Because, you know, if you're rock climbing and your harness gets tangled, you may have to hold on to cut yourself free from your harness, right?
02:19:20.000So you need a knife you can easily open up with one hand.
02:23:17.000Yeah, I'm setting up a little home base to work out.
02:23:22.000I'll still travel somewhat and do some seminars, but I'm going to set up a shop in Maui.
02:23:27.000Yeah, because I was thinking, for a guy like you, a lot of people would come to you.
02:23:32.000Like, it might not be a bad idea to just...
02:23:34.000Well, Maui would be a damn nice place to attract, right?
02:23:36.000Yeah, and not only that, but you could set up seminars on a weekly basis and do them literally from the comfort of your own home.
02:23:44.000You could just have a program where you run people out of Malibu and make a great living, or Maui, rather, and go back and forth if you so choose.
02:26:19.000It just causes motor learning confusion.
02:26:21.000There's no doubt that Olympic weightlifters are incredible specimens.
02:26:25.000They're strong, they're fast, they're explosive, but it doesn't follow that doing Olympic lifting will make you stronger and more explosive than fast.
02:26:35.000The guys that already have those attributes do well at Olympic weightlifting.
02:26:40.000So if I take a slow twitch wanderer and give him Olympic lifting, I can't selectively recruit those fast twitch muscle flavors and make him a fast twitch guy.
02:26:48.000I'm probably just going to get him hurt.
02:26:50.000If I was a wrestling coach or an MMA coach or a football coach, I want to be spending most of my athletes' time out practicing the skills of the sport.
02:26:59.000That's the most important thing, the skill of the sport.
02:27:02.000And most of your sports-specific conditioning comes from the practice of the sport itself.
02:27:08.000Aside from that, I want a general strength training program to make his skeletal muscles as strong as humanly possible.
02:27:15.000So I'm going to use modalities to do that.
02:27:18.000And the idea is to keep it as safe as possible.
02:27:24.000And I see Olympic lifting is pretty doggone dangerous.
02:27:27.000I've seen a lot of guys bust themselves up, hurting themselves, you know, trying to do it.
02:27:37.000Yeah, like sometimes people think that a power clean is like the snap, finish off a double-A pickup throw or something.
02:27:43.000But it's a completely different skill set.
02:27:46.000One isn't going to make you better at doing the other.
02:27:49.000Do you think, though, that strengthening your muscles and having more explosion and more the ability to close the distance quicker from box jumps and sprints and things along those lines can directly translate to things like martial arts?
02:28:47.000But what I found, even when I was just in high school as a wrestler, That it wasn't really helping that much and even then I just sensed like a real danger to my body.
02:28:58.000And wrestling is a tough sport as it is.
02:29:02.000Your training should prevent injuries.
02:29:05.000If a person needs to foam roll and do massages and is hurting themselves in their supplementary training, there's something wrong.
02:29:14.000If it's really a good training modality, it should prevent injuries, not cause.
02:29:20.000So I'm a firm believer in getting rid of all of the dangerous stuff out of your training.
02:29:28.000Because, you know, what we do, you know, martial arts is dangerous enough as it is.
02:29:34.000I mean, there's a lot of high-level strength and conditioning coaches that think that strength training and power training and things along those lines actually improve all of your skills.
02:30:35.000Just the way it positions the hips and the way that the weight is centered.
02:30:40.000Instead of out in front of you, where there's a lot of spinal shearing, your hands are at your side, so it's like you're almost inside the weight.
02:31:04.000My only feeling on trap bar deadlifts is I always felt like I didn't get deep enough because the 45-pound plates were so large.
02:31:12.000Well, he was saying that it's not necessary to get that much range of motion for sprinting.
02:31:17.000You know, because your legs aren't really bent that much.
02:31:19.000Anyway, but there's a lot of strength and speed coaches, like really well-known guys.
02:31:24.000They're now going against power cleans, front squats and all that.
02:31:27.000Joe DeFranco is a really famous strength coach.
02:31:30.000He won't risk the injury to his athletes anymore.
02:31:34.000He's finding guys who are messing up their elbows, their wrists, their fingers.
02:31:38.000I mean, if you have a guy that's like, you know, top-level NCAA, you know, wide receiver or something, you do not want to use risky modalities and risk hurting this guy.
02:31:49.000Because what they do as an athlete is risky enough, you know?
02:31:54.000The way they run and sprint and cut and so forth, the kind of collisions that they have.
02:31:59.000You want to make that training as safe as possible.
02:32:02.000You want to make it as general as possible so they get as much strength transfer.
02:32:08.000It doesn't have to be fancy exercises.
02:32:10.000Basically squat, hinge, push-pull horizontal and vertical, some type of rotation or anti-rotation, and then work the ancillary muscles of the neck, the fingers, the hands, the forearms, the grip, and obviously The feet, calves, and ankles are really neglected in a lot of people's training.
02:32:26.000Weak feet, weak ankles, and weak calves.
02:32:46.000He had this really cool thing where he would take a sling and hook it onto a pull-down, and then he would open his jaw against the resistance.
02:32:55.000I thought, that is freaking brilliant, dude.
02:32:58.000To strengthen the muscle of the jaw, because it's a well-known fact that if your jaw is stronger, there's a lot less chance of knockout.
02:33:05.000Yeah, a lot of guys used to chew beef jerky just to strengthen their jaw.
02:33:10.000They used to chew bubblegum all the time because you know your jaw gets tired when you have bubblegum and the bubblegum gets old and you just keep chewing on it and they would do that to keep their jaw strong.
02:34:52.000I can see where it can be controversial because it all comes back to your technique, your form.
02:34:56.000You know, if you're an idiot and you're using a lot of momentum and you're using poor technique, I can see where you can really mess your neck up.
02:35:59.000But I was always a firm believer in working the neck, and I used neck harnesses successfully using really good strict form, not necessarily heavy weight.
02:36:08.000If you put yourself in a biomechanically inefficient position, you can really work those muscles really hard and very, very safe.
02:36:16.000Now when you talk about neck, those neck harnesses, and you lift your neck up and you can lie on a bench and put a plate on your head and lift your head up, what about side-to-side movements?
02:36:31.000Another one, well, remember, too, in violent contact sports, someone's going to put your neck in some pretty weird positions, whether you want them to or not.
02:36:39.000So you've got to kind of endure yourself to, you know, those basic positions.
02:36:45.000And what kind of repetitions are you talking about when you're doing neck exercises?
02:37:16.000Exploding on the initial movement, the power of the out movement, like say if I do a chin up, exploding up, and then a very slow, maybe like four times as long, maybe even more than that on the way down.
02:38:30.000But people can't say it was just the steroids, because Arnold was using steroids, too.
02:38:36.000We were talking about Pavel before the podcast, Pavel Tatsulin, and he is a proponent of low reps, doing things like under five reps, five reps or under.
02:38:51.000Well, remember, his sport is his strength.
02:39:09.000If you're an athlete and you want to use strength training to better you in your sport, the majority of your time should be spent doing your sport.
02:39:19.000So the amount of weight isn't the most important thing necessarily because an athlete is not a strength specialist.
02:39:28.000So once you can deadlift or press a certain amount of weight, it's pretty much going to get diminishing returns.
02:39:35.000I mean, how strong do you need to be, you know, in a weight class sport?
02:39:39.000I mean, if you're able to do a double bodyweight deadlift, how much stronger do you need to be?
02:39:43.000In order to get stronger, you're going to have to specialize.
02:39:46.000But that's going to take me away from the skills of my sport.
02:39:50.000And also, a lot of the low repetition stuff, you know, that comes from the field of weightlifting.
02:39:59.000But it's not necessary for me to do that low of repetition when I'm just training for general strength.
02:40:04.000Well, his philosophy or his claims are very interesting because what his claims are was that people doing these low rep exercises like five reps or under, they experience benefits in all of their sports.
02:40:19.000And that power and strength translated to gymnastics and sports.
02:40:25.000All strength training is going to translate into sports to an extent.
02:40:29.000Olympic lifting works, power lifting works, low reps work, high reps work.
02:40:34.000I know many guys that did nothing but super high repetitions, you know?
02:41:41.000I personally believe for a lifetime, and believe me, I have a lifetime of injuries, if you're getting hurt in your strength training, you're doing something wrong.
02:41:49.000Strength training should prevent injuries, not cause it.
02:41:52.000So there's something wrong with your technique and your form.
02:41:56.000Me being a wrestler and a jiu-jitsu guy, I can't afford to hurt myself.
02:42:01.000And of course, at my age now, you get hurt.
02:42:03.000Oh my god, it takes forever to get back.
02:42:05.000We know that fast, explosive training works, but we also know there's a much higher chance of injury.
02:42:13.000So for me, I like slow, high-tension reps, really controlled, and like you discovered, that slow negative.
02:42:21.000Yeah, slow negatives seem to be having a really positive benefit on my training lately.
02:42:25.000And I found that doing my exercises fast and explosive did not make me faster on the mat.
02:42:32.000I had to selectively pick the movements I wanted to be fast and explosive on and do those fast.
02:42:55.000I do it for three reps and then I throw it down.
02:42:57.000Well, thanks for taking it easy on my hand when we shook hands this morning, man.
02:43:01.000Well, I started with a 120-pound one, and then I got a 167-pound one that I use now, but I have a 200-and-something-pound one that I'm saving for when I get tired of the 167-pound one.
02:43:12.000But it's like there's a rabbit hole with that, because I'm into squeezing things now.
02:43:20.000Just make sure it's not people's hands with you.
02:43:22.000Well, I just have gotten excited about the idea of strengthening my hands because my strength handing has all been accidental for my hands.
02:43:30.000It's all been attached to deadlifts and kettlebells and chin-ups and all the different stuff, and that's how my hands got strong.
02:43:37.000But I've never just actively trained my grip.
02:43:40.000So in doing this, I've been doing it, I'll say like four or five months now, just been smashing these things all the time.
02:43:46.000Well, you know, there's different types of grip strength.
02:43:49.000You know, there's that crushing strength, which the captains of crush would give you.
02:43:52.000But there's also like endurance strength, which is really good for grappling.
02:43:56.000Well, just hanging off a high bar, you know, either one hand or two.
02:44:00.000Well, that's one of the things we found on Fear Factor that was interesting.
02:44:02.000We did this thing where we had people hang all over water on a bar, just hanging by their body weight.
02:44:27.000One reason why rope climbing has stood the test of time as a grappling modality is it's a very specific vertical type grip, like you grab a hand or a neck or a wrist or forearm or even an ankle.
02:45:02.000Yeah, I mean, that's where they get them.
02:45:03.000But I'll tell you, just hanging on that or squeezing it, you know, just not even climbing, just hanging until your hand gets out is a tremendous grip exercise.
02:45:11.000But, yeah, for jiu-jitsu and wrestling, I've found that captains of crush don't translate as well as doing things like towel, chin-ups, you know, obviously.
02:45:51.000I have a friend who does these scapula exercises.
02:45:55.000He's an archer, and he hangs the way you're talking about, and then when he gets to the hanging position, he just lifts himself up like this.
02:46:29.000But by pre-exhausting the lats and the rhomboids and all those back muscles, when you do your pull-ups, whew, man, you really feel your back.
02:46:40.000So you do pull-ups, like do all your sets?
02:46:45.000Well, not all the time, but I would do the scapular retractions first, jump down, shake out my grip a little bit, and then jump up and do the pull-ups.
02:46:52.000Wow, what a great little back workout.
02:46:55.000Oh, so you do the scapula exercises first?
02:46:58.000First, to pre-exhaust those muscles because they're bigger and stronger than your little teeny grip forearm hands.
02:47:03.000So usually what comes out first in pull-ups is the hands, the forearms, sometimes your biceps.
02:47:08.000So by pre-fatiguing those upper back muscles first, they get much better workout when you add in the arms.
02:48:24.000Both ways will get you as strong as can be, as strong as a beast.
02:48:29.000So that plank that you're talking about, it's like a yielding isometric in that you have a measurable weight, which is your body weight.
02:48:36.000And rather than just hang out to see how long you can survive, what happens is you start to let the back collapse a little bit.
02:48:43.000You start to relax certain areas of your body.
02:48:46.000And now it's just not nearly as effective.
02:48:50.000But if you're really trying to shorten the abdominals and really squeezing and creating this tension, you create a tremendous amount of muscle fatigue.
02:48:57.000And that should be the true purpose of exercise, to create that overload, that muscle fatigue.
02:49:02.000And allowing your muscles to recover from that and establish a new base of strength.
02:49:07.000I have a friend, and a lot of Jiu Jitsu guys are getting into this now, where they're doing super slow sets.
02:49:19.000And as the man ages, and you have all the dings in your shoulders and elbows and stuff, you'll find that you'll be drawn more and more to nice, slow, high-tension sets.
02:49:30.000How many seconds up and down do you suggest, like say for something like a chin-up?
02:49:34.000Well, Mike Mentzer, you know, for bodybuilding, hypertrophy, he found like 4-2-4, where you would like four seconds up, pause in the contracted position and four seconds down.
02:49:44.000The contracted position, the push-up, the hard part would be the bottom part.
02:54:12.000I have this one bodyweight squat where you face the wall, where you can't unload by leaning forward, you know, letting your torso lean forward.
02:56:56.000The injuries that I've had, if anyone has the excuse for not training, I don't mean to toot my own horn, but man, I never missed a training due to an injury.
02:57:05.000Man, if you hurt your shoulder, you got your other shoulder and your legs that you can work in your core, right?
02:57:11.000I busted up my foot one time, so I was able to work.
02:58:11.000Well, no, don't try it because I don't want you to hurt your back.
02:58:13.000But you've got to really, really brace your abdominals and keep your glutes tight because the shearing force on the lumbar is really high, as I found out.
02:58:23.000I don't do those, but I do do a lot of ab wheel stuff.
03:00:48.000You know, you're getting all these electrical feet out and all this stuff.
03:00:51.000So I said to Arthur, I said, surely there must be a very simple exercise that you could do that would give you really, really good results.
03:00:58.000Because he was basically poo-pooing most back exercises.
03:02:56.000I used to be the trainer for the owners of the Philadelphia Eagles, the Jeff and Christina, or they're divorced now, but Jeff still owns the Philadelphia Eagle team.
03:03:06.000He used to have all these really cool nifty devices because he suffered a lot from back.
03:03:10.000It was a chair that you sit on a sling, like this playground swings, with these two clamps that grab you underneath your armpits and clamp, right?
03:06:14.000I mean, of course, some idiot could screw it up and get himself hurt, but the chance of hurting yourself with isometrics is virtually none.
03:06:21.000Good way to also work around an injury.
03:06:23.000You know, if you have a foot, ankle, knee, elbow, you can still do isometrics.
03:06:29.000You could even potentially do isometrics if you're in bed.
03:06:33.000You know, let's say you had an injury in a car accident where you could actually keep your muscles in shape laying in bed.